Legal Opinion
Department of Commerce v. United States House of Representatives
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 25, 1999No. 98-404PublishedCited by 242 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
The Census Bureau (Bureau) has announced a plan to use two forms of statistical sampling in the 2000 Decennial Census to address a chronic and apparently growing problem of “undercounting” certain identifiable groups of individuals. Two sets of plaintiffs filed separate suits challenging the legality and constitutionality of the Bureau’s plan. Convened as three-judge courts, the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the District Court for the District of Columbia each held that the Bureau’s plan for the 2000 census violates the Census Act, 13 U. S. C. § 1 et seq., and both…
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